I opened an email address I have not used in over a year and the most recent message said, "This message has been sent by eBay in an attempt to contact you for another member." The actual message was "I paid you through Paypal and I have not received my item, please refund my money or I will report you to eBay and Paypal."
I was a little flabbergasted trying to figure out how this person got this email address since I stopped using that for Paypal and eBay a long time ago. I went to eBay and there were no messages in my in or out boxes. As I stared at the message I read the name again and the email address to the right of the name several times. The members name was BillysDaddy123 - the weird thing was the eBay email address showed as [email protected]. I almost missed that little twist on his email address!!
I emailed him back and said, "Listen you %$#(&% (very bad word) scammer if you ever email me again for money I will report you to the police and if they can't find you I will hunt you down myself!" I reported it to eBay and PayPal in case is name has come up in any fraud cases.
Please be very careful if you get emails from anybody that you have not done business with and look out for that eBya trick!
I was a little flabbergasted trying to figure out how this person got this email address since I stopped using that for Paypal and eBay a long time ago. I went to eBay and there were no messages in my in or out boxes. As I stared at the message I read the name again and the email address to the right of the name several times. The members name was BillysDaddy123 - the weird thing was the eBay email address showed as [email protected]. I almost missed that little twist on his email address!!
I emailed him back and said, "Listen you %$#(&% (very bad word) scammer if you ever email me again for money I will report you to the police and if they can't find you I will hunt you down myself!" I reported it to eBay and PayPal in case is name has come up in any fraud cases.
Please be very careful if you get emails from anybody that you have not done business with and look out for that eBya trick!